The United States announced Tuesday it is toughening a policy denying funding to foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortions.
When he came to power in 2017, President Donald Trump restored the policy first announced by then president Ronald Reagan in 1984 at an international conference in Mexico City.
Since then, Democratic presidents have scrapped the rule and Republican ones have reinstituted it.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday a tightening of the policy, saying the US will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give financial support to other foreign groups involved in what he called the "global abortion industry."
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